Hello Maven,
On 09/22/2011 06:26 PM, Maven User wrote:
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type="cite">Jessica - thank you so much!
The learning curve has felt very steep, these types of exchanges
have helped me out a ton.
The final thread/step in this process is getting around having to
specify my password when running knife.
So when I do something like:
C:\chef>knife ssh "role:<role I want to do something
with>" "sudo chef-client"
WARNING: Failed to connect to node[<chefclient>] --
Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed:
<username>@<chefclient>
But when I do this:
C:\chef>knife ssh "role:<role I want to do something
with>" "sudo chef-client" -P <password>
<chefclient> knife sudo password:
Enter your password:
<chefclient>
<chefclient> [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:23:14 -0400] INFO: ***
Chef 0.10.4 ***
<chefclient> [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:23:15 -0400] INFO: HTTP
Request Returned 401 Unauthorized: Failed to authenticate. Ensure
that your client key is valid.
<chefclient> [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:23:15 -0400] FATAL:
Stacktrace dumped to /var/cache/chef/chef-stacktrace.out
<chefclient> [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:23:15 -0400] FATAL:
Net::HTTPServerException: 401 "Unauthorized"
Isn't the authorization handled via the pem files or do I need to
set up ssh keys as well?
As I can see you have successfully run a knife ssh command by
suppling the right password. You mus provide knife ssh with either a
password or pem key path (-i option). Here you can see that knife
ssh has sshed into the node and tried to run chef-client there but
it failed. The reason is probably that you haven't configured
chef-client there. Make sure you have the right chef configuration
directory with client.rb and validation/client key on the remote
machine.
Denis
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jessica
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Hi Maven,
I completely agree, we've been working
on separating instructions based on OS as well as type of
install (client vs workstation). This should make it clearer
what is needed to run both. Client has chef-client
configured so they can run recipes, and workstations have
knife configured so they can manage the nodes. It
isn't necessary to run both on a node unless you want to run
recipes on it and manage other nodes from it. The directions
currently explain how to set the node up with both, but it
may not be needed depending on what you want to do with your
install.
The instructions on the Installation on Windows page will
guide you through almost everything you need for a
workstation, except for SSH and bootstrapping new nodes from
it. I'd recommend installing the gems on the knife page, you
will definitely need at least the net-ssh packages to use
SSH. Afterwards you can confirm you can SSH, and then follow
the knife windows bootstrap guide to bootstrap new nodes
with knife if needed. The gems really should be included on
the Installation on Windows page to make this clearer.
The knife windows bootstrap page is separate because not
everyone who installs Windows will need to bootstrap new
Windows nodes. This page can be used on Mac or Linux as
well, to bootstrap new Windows nodes from that workstation
instead. If you do decide to bootstrap new nodes from this
machine you will need 1.9.X, but otherwise you can use Ruby
1.8.7 without issues. It really just depends on how you'd
like to have your nodes managed.
If you have a Mac or Linux machine available, you could
always just try setting it up as the workstation instead and
then using the knife-windows bootstrap plugin to bootstrap
new nodes as clients from it as there is a bit more
documentation on those OSes right now. If you did it this
way no configuration should be needed on the Windows machine
except for SSH or WinRM access, and the bootstrap plugin
would install ruby, gems, and chef-client. It would not
configure knife though, so you'd need to manage the nodes
from the Linux/Mac workstation in this type of setup.
If you're still getting errors after installing those
gems on Windows, feel free to update this thread with some
more information on the errors you are getting.
Thanks,
Jessica
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:15
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By the way - this page:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+Windows
Suggests ruby 1.8.7, but then this one:
Requires 1.9.X+
:-/
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at
9:44 AM, Maven User <
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Cool - I'd love to help out in any way to
document this process (it's been pretty
painful).
FWIW - it'd be HUGELY helpful if all
instructions for each platform were
organized by platform.
Right now, there are "how to setup chef on
windows", a "knife-windows" and then finally
a generalized "knife" pages. All of which
have little bits needed to get things
working successfully on windows (something I
_still_ haven't managed).
Just so I'm clear - I can jump right to the
link below to set up knife on windows? Then
I have to go to the generalized Knife page
and also install those gems?
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM,
Jessica Bourne <
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Hi Maven,
We've actually been working on
updating our installation
instructions, including the
documentation on Windows. They
won't be completed for a few more
weeks, but I'll be sure to review
this thread once they are in draft
so we can be sure your concerns
are addressed.
The gems listed on the knife
doc are necessary, some of them
are what enable you to ssh from
that node. If you're still getting
errors after installing the gems
on the knife page, feel free to
respond to this thread with the
command you are using and the
error you are getting, as well as
the Windows version. Without
specific errors it can be
difficult to figure out why knife
ssh is failing on that node.
Thanks,
Jessica
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Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:18
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It gets even more
confusing.
So it starts there but
talks about knife-windows
(is that absolutely
necessary?) then if you
click into the standard
"knife" documentation,
there's a big blue box
that states "Knife
requires some extra gems!"
- are those required if
you don't plan on doing
any cloud work? I've
noticed on windows, I
can't do "knife ssh"
without errors but I'm
done flailing and don't
want to just run off and
start installing gems.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at
1:19 PM, Maven User
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http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+Windows
??
On Tue, Sep
20, 2011 at
12:28 PM,
Daniel DeLeo <
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On
Monday,
September 19,
2011 at 10:37
AM, Maven User
wrote:
> Thanks
again for all
the tips up
until this
point - the
documentation
for knife
usage on
windows is
really
confusing.
>
> It just
skips from
running the
client
install/setup
to running
knife commands
- nothing
about the
"knife
configure -i"
step.
>
> I'm also
not sure if
this is
expected
behavior but
the windows
guide talks
about
C:\chef\.chef
yet knife
creates a lot
of things in
~/.chef (in
windows).
>
> Do things
need to be
replicated
between these
two areas or
did I make a
mistake?
>
What
documentation
are you using?
--
Dan DeLeo
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